Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterpart of Bahrain, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, agreed Saturday to hold a strategic ministerial dialogue between Japan and the Gulf Cooperation Council at an early date.
The strategic dialogue will bring together the Japanese foreign ministers and ministerial officials of the GCC countries. Bahrain currently dispatches an official to serve as the secretary-general of the six-nation GCC.At his meeting in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, Khalifa informed Abe of his country's decision to lift the restrictions on food imports from Japan that have been in place since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Source: NewsOnJapan
Source: NewsOnJapan
